Wait for the installation to finish. The server will restart automatically when it is done installing the Hyper-V role. When the server comes back up, the associated features will be installed automatically. Click Close when done.

In the Server Manager screen, you can see a new tab called Hyper-V. Click it to list all Hyper-V servers. In this case, I only have one Hyper-V server.

Right-click on it and choose Hyper-V Manager.

Hyper-V manager opens. Now you have a new Hyper-V server.

2/ Configure Virtual Switches.

During the installation, I had chosen the two Network Interface Cards for the virtual switches. I am going to check out those newly created virtual switches and possibly rename them to my liking. Highlight the Hyper-V server and click Virtual Switch Manager…

I see that Hyper-V already created two Virtual Switches for me as I mentioned. I am going to rename the Virtual Switches to some friendly names instead of the long names “Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE (NDIS VBD Client) #44 – Virtual Switch” and “Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE (NDIS VBD Client) #45 – Virtual Switch“.

Base on the Network Connection information, I know that the first one is connected to my LAN and the second one connects to the external WAN. To verify that, open the Network Connections panel using the command ncpa.cpl.

This will show the two vEthernet connections that are assigned to the Virtual Switches. Double-click on each of them and choose Details… to find out what their IP addresses are.

After clicking Details…, we can verify that the Ethernet Interface is assigned to the LAN or the WAN network based on their IP addresses. This is how you know which Virtual Switch is connected to which physical network.

Based on the information found, I rename the Virtual Switches accordingly. Click Apply when done.

Also do the same thing to the WAN Virtual Switch. Click Apply and then click OK when done.

3/ Create a new Virtual Machine

In this part, we will be creating a new Virtual Machine with Ubuntu Linux Server. We will not be going through the OS installation process here, as that process has been covered in other labs already.

Insert the Ubuntu Linux Server DVD into the DVD drive of the Hyper-V server. In Hyper-V Manager, highlight the Hyper-V Server and click New, then choose Virtual Machine…

At the Welcome screen click Next.

Enter the Name for the Virtual Machine, Choose the location for it and click Next.